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Accentuating the Liberal in Classical Liberal: Advocating Ascendency of the Individual & a Politick & Literature to Fight the Rise & Rise of the Tax Surveillance State. 'Illigitum non carborundum'.

Liberty and freedom are two proud words that have been executed from the political lexicon: they were frog marched and stood before a wall of blank minds, then forcibly blindfolded, and shot, with the whimpering staccato of ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ resounding over and over. And not only did this atrocity go unreported by journalists in the mainstream media, they were in the firing squad.

The premise of this blog is simple: the Soviets thought they had equality, and welfare from cradle to grave, until the illusory free lunch of redistribution took its inevitable course, and cost them everything they had. First to go was their privacy, after that their freedom, then on being ground down to an equality of poverty only, for many of them their lives as they tried to escape a life behind the Iron Curtain. In the state-enforced common good, was found only slavery to the prison of each other's mind; instead of the caring state, they had imposed the surveillance state to keep them in line. So why are we accumulating a national debt to build the slave state again in the West? Where is the contrarian, uncomfortable literature to put the state experiment finally to rest?

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Friday, November 2, 2012

NZ: The Party of Small Government Making More Big Government Laws: Craig Foss and Low-Ball Offers.

No
government should ever legislate their nose into a voluntary transaction
between two consenting adults where there is no element of force or fraud
involved. This National government’s coming Low-Ball Offer regulation is an
inappropriate intrusion of the state, yet again, into the private, voluntary
transactions of individuals. Worse, it’s treating New Zealand adults, as if
they were children, in this kindergarten of a country. Understand that I know what’s good for me better than any bureaucrat,
and certainly any politician, so (Anti)Commerce Minister, the authoritarian Craig
Foss, can take his regulation back to the Fortress of Legislation, and
rescind it please, while giving the taxpayer their money back for the time that
has been squandered over this.

Just
in case Foss is confused by this attack on him, here’s what he doesn’t
seem to understand: if a company wants to make me a ridiculously low offer on a
share or bond I own, I don’t need to take it. I can simply say no. Armed with the
Internet or a phone to a broker, I can find out the market value of any stock
or bond I own within five minutes: I don’t need protection from a low ball
offer.And worse: sometimes a low-ball offer may be to an investor’s advantage. During
the period of the finance company disasters, a low-baller willing to take a
risk by offering a lower price for a bond than an investor might have got out
of liquidation, could well be doing that investor a favour simply by offering
them liquidity. If I was ninety years old and a low-baller offered me $10,000
for a bond I might receive $20,000 for from a liquidator in five years, well,
time considered, $10,000 in my hand now may well be the prudent decision,
because I might not be here in five years, or perhaps that money is needed now for medical bills that will make my life better. That type of opportunity, which may well improve my life, is the beauty of the functioning
voluntary free market that Foss is trying to destroy.

Though,
bottom line, it’s always about philosophy: freedom of the individual versus the
mollycoddling of an out-of-control state.And philosophically, here’s the final insult: for the act of a
low-baller making me an offer that I can voluntarily accept or not, without
duress - it’s just a letter through the post for Rand’s sake - and an offer
that may well be doing me a favour, that low-baller, conducting their right of
the voluntary offer, can be fined $30,000.

This
legislation is every bit an insult as the recent IRD and MSD privacy breaches,
therefore, I ask Foss to voluntarily step down from his portfolio please: if
nothing else, he has proven he does not understand his party’s stated ethic of
small government, by just placing the fist of state, in the form of the
increasingly draconian Financial Management Authority (FMA), into my stomach
again. And let me reiterate, the continuing power grab by the FMA, represents a
bigger threat, and menace, to business, investment, and prosperity in New
Zealand, than every low-baller does.

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Civilisation is a movement toward privacy, an Orwellian surveillance state the opposite, and tax legislation, especially tax administration, has become the legislation and administration of surveillance and authoritarian rule, in contravention of the rule of law, and common decency. IR

If the Founding Fathers could see how freedom is bound, again, under the iron fist of our taxing authorities; New Zealand's IRD, America's IRS, UK's HMRC, a secret police operating in every country, there would be a Western Spring.

This blog is the only form my protest can take, hoping not to become a squashed blug on the windscreen of state.

Disclaimer: If you pay anything other than the correct amount of tax - as hard as that can be to calculate under our mess of tax law - then you're a bloody idiot. The IR's are all-powerful: they are not a construct of a free, voluntary, civilised classical liberalism, they are a relic of totalitarianism. You have no liberty or privacy from the IR's, you have no legal defence against them, you cannot refuse to be interrogated, you cannot question their actions or seek judicial review holding them to account, even the burden of proof has been turned against the taxpayer; before the law, though you have done nothing wrong, you have less rights than a murderer or rapist, and this Department has been charged by the Fortress of Legislation to systematically eavesdrop and investigate all of us. Don't mess with them. And let me put on record, the IRD staffers I deal with daily are ‘good’ people, I have no complaint whatsoever on a personal/personable level; but this blog is about the principles involved, and it remains my hope there is enough of a classical liberal ethic left, admitting debate and ' difference', that this blog is taken only for the contained - to these pages - protest that it is. For let me spell it out - you, Big Brother State, have won: I.Am.Scared.Of.You.You bet I am. But there's this loon in me that can't seem to shut up. (You're lucky, my poor wife has to live with it).

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